Pacman and by most accounts Jeff Fisher is a good coach and evaluator of talent. You take risks and this is what happens. It should be interesting to see where the Cardinals are at in a few years time with Honey Badger.

My theory regarding guys who implode when they get into the NFL after relatively incident-free college years is a combination of suddenly having a bunch of money in their pockets + the sudden freedom from the structure & discipline inherent with most college programs. Let's face it, the NFL coaches don't have the time or inclination to solve personal problems of their players. They assume they're adults and going to act like them. I'm not sure that theory totally explains Titus Young's crime spree and bizarre behavior. You'd have thought this would have shown up sometime at BSU and that the Lions would have checked it out. Wait, strike that last part /dumb

I agree, and I also get a sense that college coaches focus on their stars more. At Detroit, Young was a decent player but not one you'd treat as a top dog. That can mess with guys if they were a stud at smaller schools for years.

The Yahoo! story (HERE) has a few quotes from his former high school coach who is (quite correctly) worried and said (also correctly) that football was simply out of the question and it has to be about getting his life in order. The sentence that Yahoo! ended their piece with expresses this very well:

"Young needs a lot of help (or some time away from general society), and he needs it very, very soon. Stories like this don't generally get better -- they tend to end in tragedy."

He seriously needs to get some help, this goes beyond sports. He is going to end up hurting someone else, in jail or worse. I am praying that he finds the support he needs to get his life back on track. He has all the talent to make a lot of money, but he is a head case

Don't give him the excuse of mental illness. It's a guy who always thought he deserved everything and when people would not give it to him he would just take it, even if he was not supposed to be there. See lining up in the wrong spot. It's not a mental illness, it's spoiled and now he is going to learn a very hard life lesson. This time he won't just be told to go home.

Not trying to be a jerk, I am seriously asking. People do similar things all the time, they just usually are not covered by ESPN. He is not mentally ill, he is immature and thinks the world owes him. Having coached, I see this attitude all to often. Some we can help teach, but some just don't get it. But it certainly is not mental illness.

I don't know and maybe he is a criminal but why can't we discuss it? I'm not making excuses and I am not doctor but it seems as if he is has bi-polar disorder. This is serious, he could end up getting himself hurt or dying, he has a young son at home so I feel for the child

Drugs was my first inclination as well, not mental illness, although that could be a piece of the equation. Usually a guy who presumably has money doesn't go breaking into houses just for the fun of it.